USS Indianapolis found!

The Yahoo article also had pics of her anchor and bell.  She is at around 18,000 feet.  Gates is becoming the ship finder.

May all members of her crew rest in peace now that she has been located.

Didn't Paul Allen, Gates partner find her?

Just a brief "history " lesson for my fellow forum members who would like to know.

Capt. Hashimoto of sub  I -58 fired a spread of 6 torpedos at the cruser Indianapolis transiting from Tinian to Leyte, having landed material for the first Atomic bombs. The cruiser took two or three hits and sank with the loss of 883 crewmen.

According to the Imperial Japanese torpedo  firing logs  the sinking location is given as

12 % 02 N / 134% 48 E

I cannot remember where I read the following : The sub remaind on station for quite some time and the sailors " Cheered " as the survivors in the water were attacked and eaten by Tiger sharks. They offered no assistance.

I do recall that Capt. Hashimoto was called on to give testamony in the courtmartial of the capt. of the Indianapolis, and in part of his testamony stated that the Indianapolis was NOT zig - zagging and afforded a "perfect" target.

At the Jerome Cemetery, there is an INDIANAPOLIS survivor, Robert Schaffer, who is one of the few men who managed to stay alive during the four day nightmare before rescue. He and his family once lived in California, but moved to Idaho in his later years.

Happy modeling     Crackers

GM, I am just finally finishing my Indianapolis, & I have the I-58 in 1/350 too. I will do it next.  I have said it before, how it scared us when we heard the indy was sunk, because my brother was on the Indiana.  I remember that clearlyI just have a little left to do& I think it really looks goodstill. I have had the Trumpeter 1/350 Indy for 4 years & got on it a month ago to finally build. I was really surprised to hear about finding her, when I was building her.

   That darn 1/350 PE is a killer for my shaky right hand, but I got it done.I also got the Revell Snowberry Corvette yesterday & it looks good. I shaped sme 1x2 to glue in the hull for screws & have the hull glued already . I do like bigger scale models now. Way easier for me to work on. I have been building them for about 75 years now so I guess I like them.

If I remember correctly the fact the ship was not-zigzagging was never in issue. What the captain of the sub stated is that it wouldn't have made any difference. He could have sunk the ship even if it was zigzagging.

McVey was nothing more than the scapegoat for massive Navy errors all down the line after her loss.  He was eventually cleared, as has his Navy record, but it was finally done after he had passed.

You're right, sub skipper said it wouldn't have made any difference on the zig-zag

Marcus McBean

Didn't Paul Allen, Gates partner find her?

 

goldhammer

McVey was nothing more than the scapegoat for massive Navy errors all down the line after her loss.  He was eventually cleared, as has his Navy record, but it was finally done after he had passed.

You're right, sub skipper said it wouldn't have made any difference on the zig-zag

 

To paraphrase Capt. Quint from 'Jaws' "...anyway, we delivered the bomb."